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InfoWorld reports that MS Office apps can be driven from back end Web Services. This is good news for Smalltalk developers, because integration via web services is far simpler in VisualWorks than is integration via COM. The 7.3 release will have some nice wizards for developing and deploying web services, and - based on this - it looks like you can just point Office apps at them. Cool stuff.